Vista OS is Slow

I am assuming you are saying this is large compared to Windows XP. If this is true, the main two new features to blame are Aero and the ridiculous UAC.

Another thing to watch out for are system restore points. Since you have a fresh install than this isn't really an issue. But, once these start happening, they can take up a ridiculous amount of space. (perform a disc cleanup every now and then to fix this)

In overall though, hard drives are pretty cheap these days so I wouldn't lose sleep over 10-20 GB of space.

There are services that can be turned off, depending on your particular needs, that will definitely speed up vista. Do a search on "optimizing vista".

Black Viper has pretty good information on what each service is, helping you to decide if it needs to be on for your situation.

Take a look at these links...hope it helps.

http://www.blackviper.com/

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm

Hi switchman, I see your contribution as the best of all, haven followed the links you provided, the problems seems to have been solved by 70%. cheers

How much RAM do you have installed? My suggestion is install the maximum allowable for you computer. It made a huge difference in my computer.

I'm afraid your installation is typical. If the laptop is not really capable of running Vista: is there any way to get your money back and load a less resource hungry OS? MS keep backing off and making XP available even for latest design laptops. I guess that in Nigeria, even an expensive new laptop will not be latest generation. I'm also aware that buying extra RAM and bigger hard drives will cost an arm and a leg.

Do you really need windows at all. Ubuntu is free and comes with Open Office which is easier to use for both new an experienced users. Importing and exporting word documents to and from any office suite is never going to work well (but you should be able to transfer all the text, and re-construct any document). If you're just producing reports, then, Open Office has an export to pdf facility which will make your output available to anyone.

(Of course you can also get Open Office for free to run on windows if you want.)

Try CCleaner. Its free. Run the cleaner and the registry cleaner tool untill it quits finding things. Always back up the registry entries that it cleans. It will give you the option to do so when you run it.

Bad registry entries left behind from installs and uninstalls will bog a system down to a crawl because the OS keeps going to the entries over and over and over again confusing the system. You ace those bad entries and your computer will run twice as fast.

Steve

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I switch to Vista ultimate 64 from Vista home premium 32, same bloat ware but the CPU doesn't seem to work near as hard. On the other hand, most of the anti virus and spy ware is not 64 bit. McAfee was fine and Spyware Doctor did set me up with beta that works fine.

One other thing I wiped all the OEM junk off the Drive first. Loads better performance but I have yet to install many programs back on. I have over 100 gigs of my own files but the major Upgrade was provided for me.

Brad